About the Authors

Mahesh Doddabelavangala Mruthyunjaya

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahesh Doddabelavangala Mruthyunjaya, Aaron Chapla

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Aaron Chapla

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahesh Doddabelavangala Mruthyunjaya, Aaron Chapla

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Asha Hesarghatta Shyamasunder

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Deny Varghese

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Manika Varshney

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Johan Paul

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Mercy Inbakumari

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Flory Christina

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Ron Thomas Varghese

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Kurien Anil Kuruvilla

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Thomas V. Paul

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Ruby Jose

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Annie Regi

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Jessie Lionel

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

L. Jeyaseelan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Jiji Mathew

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Nihal Thomas

nihal_thomas@cmcvellore.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AC NT. Formal analysis: AC NT MDM. Funding acquisition: NT. Investigation: MDM TVP NT RTV JM RJ JL AR LJ KAK AHS FC MI. Methodology: AC NT. Project administration: AC NT. Resources: NT AC. Supervision: NT AC. Validation: AC DV MV JP. Writing – original draft: AC MDM NT. Writing – review & editing: AC MDM AHS NT DV MV JP TVP RTV JM RJ JL AR LJ KAK FC MI.